Clinical Simulation
Tracheostomy Care
About This Course
What you'll experience
Fifty-seven-year-old Patrick has had to undergo a tracheostomy procedure due to an infection in his epiglottis. As a nurse, your responsibility is to perform post-operative tracheostomy care procedures. Performing a tracheostomy is a major surgical procedure and carries with it significant risks and possibilities of complications. The success of the surgery largely depends upon the post-procedural care and this is where the role of caregiving nurses becomes crucial. This VR session provides learners practice in performing tracheostomy care regimes smoothly and skillfully.
Learning Objectives
- Explain tracheostomy care procedure to a virtual patient
- Demonstrate correct procedure for closed and open suctioning of a tracheostomy patient
- Demonstrate sterile technique in setting up sterile field and performing tracheostomy care
- Demonstrate setting up oxygen on a tracheostomy patient
- Explain aftercare instructions to patient
References
- Intensive Care Society. (2014). “Standards for the care of adult patients with a temporary tracheostomy; Standards and guidelines”.
- Morris, L. L., et al. (2013). Tracheostomy care and complications in the intensive care unit. Critical Care Nurse, 33(5), 18–30.
What you'll practice
Core Skills Training
Core Skill
Patient Preparation
To get a patient to co-operate it is important to communicate and inform about the procedure. In this Patient Preparation module, learners practice conversing and communicating with virtual patients.
Learners will also gather the required material and equipment needed for the procedure. These are provided in the form of affordances which will assist the learners in completing their tasks. All affordances present physics-based interactions to give a realistic experience.
Tailored to You
Customize Your Program
MedVR Education is bringing to you in-VR customization that will enable you to customize your procedural simulations by making selections from a range of feature choices.
- Select patient from a diverse background
- Choose preferred virtual environment
- Select equipment used in the procedure
- Modify difficulty level of the assessment mode
- …..many more to come
Additional customization options are available and can be developed to meet your specific training needs.
Physics-Based InteractionHow it works
Training
With prompts, guidance and affordances learners are hand-held through the process to practice the procedure in a virtual environment with a virtual patient.
- Photorealistic virtual environment
- Physics-based interactions
- Detailed instructions
- Adequate affordances to assist in task completion
Measure progress
Assessment
Test acquired skills to perform the procedures from start to finish without prompts. An incorrect step will take the learner back to the start to start afresh.
- Live scoring
- Instant feedback
- Adequate affordances for efficient performance
- Time tracking to monitor activity completion
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